Civil War Data 150 at DLF Fall Forum 2011

DLF Fall Forum October 31, 2011 Civil War Data150: Notes Toward a Linked Data Case StudyScott Nesbit Jon VossAssociate Director, Digital Scholarship Lab Historypin Strategic Partnerships DirectorUniversity of Richmond We Are What We Do@csnesbit @jonvoss

1. Cultural Heritage in a Mashup Age

The DJ in the Library?

History & Mashup Culture +2010 National Archives Photo Contest http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/37377809@N00/5304492185/in/pool-1633053@N21/

History & Mashup Culture http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/37377809

2. Linked Open Data inLibraries, Archives & Museums

2009 Linked Open Dataphotos by PhOtOnQuAnTiQuE, TED

Linking Open Data cloud diagram, by Richard Cyganiak and Anja Jentzsch. http://lod-cloud.net/

The LOD cloud as a whole grew by 300% in 2010 http://swib.org/swib11/

The LOD cloud as a whole grew by 300% in 2010 whereas the amount of data relevant for libraries grew by nearly 1000% http://swib.org/swib11/

Linked Open Data in Libraries, Archive & Museums Culture TechnologyLODLAM Law

Join the LODLAM movement• #lodlam• http://lodlam.net proceedings online and on the road for the next year at various annual meetings and conferences• http://groups.google.com/group/lod-lam• Contribute!

3. A 2 minute or less primer: Tables to Graphs & Triples

Going from Tables to Graphs http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/thomasjwoods-com/2264301251

Going from Tables to Graphs • nodes and links in a graph

Going from Tables to Graphs• As computing power increases, the ability to build more and more complex graphs becomes a reality.• Human vs. Machine readable msulibraries lookbackmaps msulibraries internetarchive msulibraries librarycongress lookbackmaps internetarchive internetarchive librarycongress

Introducing Triples Nodes & Linksjonvoss

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Introducing Triples Nodes & Links follows jonvoss SILibraries csnesbit• Quite simply: Subject, Predicate, Object

Introducing Triples Nodes & Links follows jonvoss SILibraries csnesbit• Quite simply: Subject, Predicate, Object• gives us the ability to describe entities in a way that is machine readable

Triples for machines• triples can be serialized in many different ways, including Resource Description Framework, RDF/XML, RDFa, N3, Turtle, etc, but they all describe things in the <subject><predicate><object> format.• of course, we need to be consistent and predictable for machines to understand us.

What do we know about the person: Ed Summers (aside from the fact that he rocks)?Bio: Hacker for libraries, digital archaeologist, pragmatist. bio knows depiction of knows http://inkdroid.org/ehs.rdf

http://inkdroid.org/ehs.rdf

4. Civil War Data 150

http://civilwardata150.net

• Civil War vocabulary, or a way to link and traverse across datasets • Regiments, Battles, Places

Primary Partners

Three Phase Project

Phase 1: Metadata collectionLicensing and publishing datasets

http://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/cwp/item/2003653763/

http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2003653763/marc/

Legal Tools• http://creativecommons.org/licenses/• http://www.opendatacommons.org/licenses/ Open Data Published Data CC BY CC BY-NC-ND CC0 CC BY-NC Public Domain Mark CC BY-NDPublic Domain Dedication and License (PDDL) CC BY-SAAttribution License (ODC-By)Open Database License (ODC-ODbL) CC BY-NC-SA

Phase 2: Vocabulary Alignment Scripting or Human JudgementIdentiﬁying Battles, Regiments, Locations

Phase 3: Publishing/Visualizations

<rdf:RDF> <frbr:Work rdf:about="http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/00651205/"> <dcterms:title> 7th N.Y. State Militia, Camp Cameron, D.C., 1861 </dcterms:title> <dcterms:subject rdf:resource=”http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A2001.05.0146%3Achapter%3D30%3Aregiment%3DNY7StateMilitia”/> <dcterms:subject rdf:resource=”http://www.freebase.com/edit/topic/en/7th_new_york_militia”/> <dcterms:subject rdf:resource=”http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n97059093”/> <xhtml:license rdf:resource="https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/"/> <cc:attributionName>Source: Library of Congress</cc:attributionName> </frbr:Work></rdf:RDF>

Why Humanists Should Like LOD Visualizing Emancipation

Why Humanists Should Like LOD Visualizing Emancipation Data Flows

Why Humanists Should Like LOD Visualizing Emancipation Data FlowsOfﬁcialRecords

Why Humanists Should Like LOD Visualizing Emancipation Data FlowsOfﬁcial Dyer’sRecords Compendium

Why Humanists Should Like LOD Visualizing Emancipation Data FlowsOfﬁcial Dyer’s PerseusRecords Compendium Project

Why Humanists Should Like LOD

Why Humanists Should Like LOD Visualizing Emancipation Data Flows Army NewRegiment + X = ArgumentsLocations

Why Humanists Should Like LOD Visualizing Emancipation Data Flowswhere: X = Emancipation

Why Humanists Should Like LOD Visualizing Emancipation Data Flows“Early on Saturday morning last while off Point Lookout three negroes came to theship in a canoe from the Virginia shore. They say they are free, but have no freepapers, and assign as a reason for running away that they were required to ﬁght. Ihave also on board two slaves taken from the Virginia shore by the lateCommander J. Ward; they say they belong to Mrs. Stewart, a widow, residing nearMathias Point. I respectfully request instructions in relation to all these people.” -Capt. S. C. Rowan, aboard the U.S.S. Pawnee, to Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy, July 23, 1861

Why Humanists Should Like LOD

Why Humanists Should Like LOD CWD150 Data Flowswhere: X = U.S. Colored Troops

Why Humanists Should Like LOD CWD150 Data Flowswhere: X = Environment

Why Humanists Should Like LOD CWD150 Data Flows Soldierwhere: X = Health

Why Humanists Should Like LOD CWD150 Data Flows Survivalwhere: X = Rates

Why Humanists Should Like LOD CWD150 Data Flowswhere: X = Destruction

Why Humanists Should Like LOD CWD150 Data Flowswhere: X = Bushwhacking

Why Humanists Should Like LOD CWD150 Data Flowswhere: X = Railroads

Why Humanists Should Like LOD CWD150 Data Flowswhere: X = Rivers

Why Humanists Should Like LOD CWD150 Data Flowswhere: X = Occupations

Why Humanists Should Like LOD CWD150 http://dsl.richmond.edu

Learn More at DLF:Linked Data: Hands on How-to 2-5pm Nov. 1 with Kris Carpenter Negulescu Richard Rogers Matt Zumwalt Susan Chun

DLF Fall Forum October 31, 2011 Civil War Data150: Notes Toward a Linked Data Case Study http://civilwardata150.netScott Nesbit Jon VossAssociate Director, Digital Scholarship Lab Historypin Strategic Partnerships DirectorUniversity of Richmond We Are What We Do@csnesbit @jonvoss

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